Julian Schwinger: Physicist Biography & Legacy for Science Enthusiasts
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In the post-quantum-mechanics era, few physicists, if any, have matched Julian Schwinger in contributions to and influence on the development of physics. A deep and provocative thinker, Schwinger left his indelible mark on all areas of theoretical physics; an eloquent lecturer and immensely successful mentor, he was gentle, intensely private, and known for being "modest about everything except his physics". This book is a collection of talks in memory of him by some of his contemporaries and his former students: A Klein, F Dyson, B DeWitt, W Kohn, D Saxon, P C Martin, K Johnson, S Deser, R Finkelstein, Y J Ng, H Feshbach, L Brown, S Glashow, K A Milton, and C N Yang. From it, one can get a glimpse of Julian Schwinger, the physicist, the teacher, and the man. Altogether, this book is a must for all physicists, physics students, and others who are interested in great legends.
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Schwinger captured here as told by those who were students and colleagues:Abraham Klein: "He never tried to destroy my ego..."Bryce DeWitt: "Schwinger's Principle leads to Feynman Functional integral and all practical applications."Walter Kohn: "Old and new material treated from fresh points of view."David Saxon: "He was largely self-educated."Kenneth Johnson: "...unique, clean, elegant lectures."Stanley Deser: "Future generations learned much more than the theoretical minimum."Klein, Dewitt and Martin dispel the notion, and misconstrued inferences, that Schwinger was against any formalism but his own ( Bryce DeWitt: "he taught us to think in an unconstrained way..." ).The technical essays include: Bryce Dewitt's synopsis of curved spacetime propagators (a tour de force), Lowell Brown and Schwinger's legacy of theoretical tools and Walter Kohn with an overview of density functional theory. Finally, I quote words from Schwinger: "Progress comes from tentative excursions beyond the established framework of experiment and theory." and "It all comes down to a properly educated public." Recommended to all students, even those with only tangential interest in physics.
